Israel/World

(Courtesy of the Koby Mandell Foundation) Comedy for Koby, a highly popular stand-up comedy tour that has been entertaining Israeli-based audiences for over a decade, has announced a special Sukkot show catering to the large number of visiting tourists who will be in the country for the holiday.

(Courtesy of ALEH) In July, the Gedera-based special education school of ALEH (www.ALEH.org), Israel’s network of care for children with severe complex disabilities, transformed its robotics class into an innovative art program that makes painting accessible to its students with severe complex

After a two-day lull in violence along the Gaza Strip-Israel border, the Los Angeles Times quoted a senior Israeli official as saying that a cease-fire agreement with Hamas, the Islamist organization that rules Gaza, is “virtually done.”

(JNS/Palestinian Media Watch) Seventeen years ago today, a suicide bomber entered the Sbarro pizza shop in downtown Jerusalem, detonated his suicide vest and murdered 15 people. The murdered in the August 9, 2001 bombing included seven children as well as a couple and three of their children, an American citizen and a Brazilian citizen. In

(Ilan Lazarovich/Israel Hayom/JNS) Noting the lowest emigration figures in 10 years, the Central Bureau of Statistics this week published a new report indicating that only 15,200 residents left Israel in 2016 and stayed abroad consecutively for one year or more. Among them, 11,100 were Jewish and 700 were Arab.

The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday called on Colombia’s newly elected president to nix the decision of his predecessor, in one of his final actions in the office, to recognize the “state of Palestine.”

“We hope you use the power of your office to reverse this regrettable decision that

(Courtesy of AFBIU) Implementing a new laser-based imaging system to monitor structural health in buildings and bridges. Studying facial recognition and memory utilizing event-related potential (ERP) machinery to analyze the impact of different factors on facial-recall processes. Examining clinical language assessments collected in

(Courtesy of Special in Uniform) Thirty young men with physical disabilities who had just completed their induction ceremony recently arranged a heartwarming ceremony called Salute the IDF in honor of Israel Defense Forces’ 70th anniversary. The soldiers are incorporated into the military in the